Character you have created: May’El’lin (May to humans)
Alias:
Character Alignment: Hero eventually
Identity: Secret
Character Personality: May seeks challenges. She enjoys the thrill of battle and the feeling of victory so much that it might not be healthy. Like all Shylren her pleasure centers can be triggered by both pain and pleasure. She actually enjoys the pain that attacks do to her and revels in all sensations. They live to experience and May is no different in that way. Because she defines herself by sensation she is easily bored and constantly seeks something new and exciting to do. She is a child by the standards of her people and her maturity is questionable. But when she has had more experience with humans she will come to be fond of them.
Uniform/costume:
Origin Info/Details: May’El’Lin is the 12,000th and youngest child of Vael’El’Lin the God Emperor of the Shylren. She was raised to adolescence in his court upon the planet Renkoth, the capital planet for the Shyl Empire. As one of the 12,000 children of Vael’El’Lin she is one of the purest Shylren Highborn.
May is the very last child of Vael’El’Lin and there can be no more after her. She was sent out like all other children of Vael’El’Lin to undergo the harrowing, forbidden to return until her father passed away and all her siblings were slain just like they had been sent out before her. Her father was fond of her and knowing that her last born status meant she would have the least time to prepare sent her to world rich with conflict and powerful beings. He would not gift her with extra abilities but he would try to make the playing field a bit more level for her.
And now she’s about to land.
Hero Type (Select one):
Other
Power Level (Select one below):
D. Cosmic (Ex. Silver Surfer, Green Lantern)
Powers (Be Specific):
Shylren Evolution: Shylren Highborn evolve and change during their lives based on their experiences. The adage whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger is very true for them. Set one of the Shylren on fire and he or she will adapt to it. How exactly a Shylren adapts to a given stimulant depends on the individual. One Shylren exposed to intense flames might gain pyrokinesis, gain the ability to feed on the flames to heal, a fiery alternate form, or become highly resistant to it. Those are just examples. Each adaptation is permanent. Each time a Shylren experiences a new kind, or level of intensity, of stimulation he or she changes and adapts to it. These adaptations are not always beneficial. Sometimes Shylren adapt in ways that are helpful to preserve life but that are not useful outside of that one situation.
Shapeshifting: Shylren have limited shapeshifting abilities. They can change themselves freely as long as they keep almost the same mass. But they cannot generate extra mass or shrink their mass unless they have evolved a power like that from another source.
Physical Redundancy: Shylren have heavily redundant anatomy and when one part of them is damage another part will take over the function until the load becomes too heavy. Destroy the heart of a Shylren and her blood vessels will constrict to pump blood themselves, puncture the lungs and she’ll filter oxygen through her skin instead.
Shylren Evolution Powers List:
Regeneration: May’El’In in her first trial gained rapid regeneration.
Internalized Radiation: May'El'In has a self contained well of radiation that is released when she is injured as an automatic self defense mechanism. The longer she goes without being injured the more powerful the pulse that is released. The severity of the injury also influences the degree of the pulse.
Pyrokinesis: May after surviving the fires of a demonic dragon has gained the ability to manipulate and generate flames, as well as virtual immunity to fire.
Attributes (Select one at each category): These will change frequently. I will update them when they do. : )
Strength Level: 3 tons for now
Speed/Reaction Timing Level: Normal Human for now
Endurance at MAXIMUM Effort: 1 hour for now
Agility: 4x Normal Human for now
Intelligence: Above Average
Fighting Skill: Untrained
Resources: Minimal for now
Weaknesses: Because of Shylren Evolution most things only work well against her one time and then she will adapt. But if that one time is strong enough it might take her down for a while at least. Alternatively even if she is resistant to something she can still be beaten down with enough abuse. Right now she is weak and not yet grown, she will get much stronger. Because she is Shylren she enjoys all sensation. She will take attacks that most would dodge because she simply wants to feel.
Supporting Characters: Not yet but she will.
Sample Post (Minimum Four paragraphs containing dialogue. As this is an Advanced Level game, Sample must also meet the RPG forum's minimum requirement of 12 lines):
Honestly if you were to ask me what I’m feeling right now the answer would be that I’m positively giddy. I know right? That’s hard to believe. We Shylren are emotionally stunted and live vicariously through experience after all at least until we reach adulthood. Or at least that’s what everyone likes to think. I know I’ve been looking forward to this since I knew what it was. The coddling got old so fast and it was so boring. I know it’s traditional but still it was seriously boring.
But things are going to change now. I’m finally old enough; I finally get to leave court and the world I’m to face harrowing on looks like a truly awesome one. Father even said he thinks it is one of the best worlds for harrowing to have been found in hundreds of years and he definitely doesn’t say that lightly. I remember how he towered over me then and how he burned with such power that I could feel it just standing there. But the power was never malevolent and the warmth always made me feel safe. But in that moment his fondness for me did not show on his face. Instead I think that I saw regret, though I don’t know why he would feel regret. Shouldn’t he just be thrilled for me?
“Pssh” I banish the thoughts and focus back on the present. My ship’s already been set to autopilot so I know it’ll be fine landing itself. I’ve been cooped up for far too long and it’s time to live a little. I gaze out through the view port at the luminous sphere below as the ship draws closer. It’s almost time but I have another minute or two before I can get started.
I take a minute to review. The world is called earth, dominant species are called humans, they look similar to us but I still need a guise if I want to blend in, they are not overly religious and I am unlikely to succeed in the goddess landing style, they worship at the altar of technology, there are many anomalies that can be fun to fight as part of the my harrowing. It’s not much like the worlds most of my siblings that I remember were sent too. I do kind of wish I got to be a God Empress but a world of chaos and powers should be pretty swell too.
My luminous white gold hair flares brightly at the thought of the fun that is coming, the ends swirling out around my upper body and I make my way towards the airlock as my ship starts to enter the atmosphere. I smile and then I activate it. The doors open and I jump out. I distantly notice as the doors seal shut again, and then I am falling.
I feel an intense burning as radiation buffets me and my smile grows wider. Finally something worth feeling! My speed increases and now the burning is getting stronger, I feel my skin abrading as I plummet through the atmosphere at a speed fast enough that friction from air can burn. I would laugh and cry out but the air is too thin still, and I’m not really breathing yet.
A greater heat blooms along my body and I see flashes of flame licking over me. Already my body begins to heal. It’s rare to have gotten regeneration from the first trial. Father told me this more times than I can count and my tutors were all surprised. Normally making this sort of entrance to a world is impossible, and they still advised against it. But! They aren’t the boss of me anymore so hah!
My mental cheer came with a gesture of mocking that the humans also seem to use. I stick out my tongue and immediately another flash of sensation fills me. My skin burns, my hair is mostly gone, there is barely enough air to breathe as I fall, my regeneration is starting lose the race, and it’s going to be one hell of a landing. This is truly living.
Another breath brings fire with it into me and now I scream, consumed by the experience as conscious thought leaves me. With battered eyes I see a city beginning to appear below me and my charred lips curl into another grin as my laboring body forces out a laugh. It’s going to be one hell of a landing.
Things change so rapidly as the descent draws to an end. Buildings rise up to become towers instead of flat squares, and I see humans rapidly swell from ants to well people. There are other things too that I don’t recognize though I don’t get much of a look as my breakneck fall from the sky finally reaches an end.
In the last instant before impact I remember to switch my form. It doesn’t make much difference right now but it will if I don’t wake bef--
Posted. Finally!
